Martyr Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EF GHIH JKLM NOMP| He lay wrapped in a world of mutilated hands | A |
| Of trees that walked by night and grinning clouds | B |
| To bellowing of bulls his dream's black cloth | C |
| Ripped and let dropp a heart stuck full of swords | D |
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| He walked and by his side there strode a shade | E |
| Whose tattered hood half hid a ram's dry skull | F |
| 'There is a place set for me at God's side ' | - |
| Said Ram 'A door swings open outside Hell ' | - |
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| He rose upon hysteric wreaths of love | G |
| Soared nailed to an unrelenting beam | H |
| Through airs that tingled with a child's low cries | I |
| He glided gentle as a girl's soft dream | H |
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| Of hyacinth and marjoram in bowers | J |
| Of vernal holiness where at a sigh | K |
| The leaves bend back like gracious hostesses | L |
| To introduce a lover golden in glee | M |
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| He smashed the bowl of bitterness let spill | N |
| His freighted nightmares on the weeping world | O |
| His soul ecstatic as the chains fell free | M |
| Sped in the likeness of a tiny bird | P |
Henry Treece
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